Books made to induce a mindfuck

[J]

Books that pryed open your 3rd eye and/or books you consider mandatory

i can give you my list (always to be continued):

- Waiting for Godot, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
- The Catcher In the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
- Explicação dos Pássaros - António Lobo Antunes
- The Process, Kafka
- Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
- Through the Looking-glass - Lewis Carrol
- Notes From the Underground - Dostoievsky
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Wasteland - T. S. Eliot
- Diary of A Madman and Other Stories - Nikolai Gogol
- Visions of Cody - Jack Kerouac
- Sexus, Plexus, Nexus - Henry Miller
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter. S. Thompson
- Tire a Mãe da Boca, João Sousa Monteiro
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- O Livro do Desassossego - Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa)
- 1984, Animal House - George Orwell
- O Mundo dos Outros - José gomes Ferreira
- A Sagrada Família, Lucrécia - Rafael Dionísio
- Psychopatia Criminalis, Oskar Panizza

All the poetry of Rimbaud, Luís Miguel Nava, Herberto Hélder, António Ramos Rosa.

[Elentari]

J I think you and X6 would get along really well!! :) he only loves reading poetry and scientific research stuff but I can see u love many of his favorite poets.

Again Samuel Beckett....gotta go read something by him :)

[J]

I've checked his website - pretty cool, actually.

Yes, you go and get yourself some Beckett. Truly mandatory reading material (either if you love it or hate it in the end).

[Young Jung]

mind·f·u·c·k
Mental-Fonication·Under·Consent of the·King.
to engage in promiscuous fertilizing relationship without the permission of the mind control room or consciousness, having in the intercourse one or more pasive parts involved with an active counter part, in order to take advantage of, betray, or cheat, not to an individual at issue or its ego, but to the booster faculties of the same, such as the logic, self-awareness or the timing between both.

According to this a book, or rather, an author whom induces a minfuck is that one whom brings about doubt. In first instance all reading that puts us to think makes us doubt our certainties and would depend then on the depth in which the ideas expressed by the author are able to penetrate. Nevertheless the quality of mindfuck would be the circumstance in that the reader falls in to the reading that represents a potencial trap.

This is a whole topic J.. and not just to talk about books, but films, or personal reflexions even worthy to create another group of dicussion... or no so. Back in to books; Burroughs is a dirty old master of the mind fuck, but what he did with the words and the keys of his machine hitchcock did it in cinema and its resources.

good list, will check a few.